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Angular momentum distribution in compound nuclei have been derived from ..gamma..-ray multiplicities and angular distributions measured with the Darmstadt-Heidelberg crystall ball. The influence of dynamic barrier fluctuation on the amount of angular momentum absorbed in the fusion process is discussed. Entrance channel effects have been observed which result in different decay paths for compound nuclei at the same excitation energy and spin in different target-projectile combinations. The ..gamma..-decay of resonances in the /sup 12/C + /sup 12/C system has been investigated. The measured ..gamma..-ray yields are consistently smaller than expected for collectively enhanced E2 transitions in a deformed and rigidly rotating intermediate system. The order of magnitude of the experimentally observed ..gamma..-intensity is, however, reproduced in theoretical calculations of nuclear bremsstrahlung, using realistic wave functions of the scattering states. 29 references, 10 figures.

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A device has been developed with moveable liquid nitrogen and liquid helium volumes that is capable of reaching over two meters into the coldest regions of a cryostat or dilution refrigerator and reliably extracting or installing a target of solid, polarized hydrogen deuteride (HD). This Transfer Cryostat incorporates a cylindrical neodymium rare-earth magnet that is configured as a Halbach dipole, which is maintained at 77 K and produces a 0.1 T field around the HD target. Multiple layers provide a hermetic 77 K-shield as the device is used to maintain a target at 2 K during a transfer between cryostats. Tests with frozen-spin HD show negligible polarization loss for either H or D over typical transfer periods. Multiple target transfers with this apparatus have shown an overall reliability of about 95% per transfer, which is a significant improvement over earlier versions of the device.